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The company was founded in 1925 when Peter Kuyper and his wife Lucille invested $5,000 to buy the Rolscreen Company, a small business that had created the Rolscreen insect window screen that rolls out of sight when not in use. [2] In 1926 they moved the company to Pella, Iowa, where the Kuyper family had a lumber business.
The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Passenger Depot-Pella, also known as the Pella Depot and the Rolscreen Museum, is a historic building located in Pella, Iowa, United States. The Des Moines Valley Railroad built the first tracks through the area in 1865, and they built a simple frame depot to serve passenger's needs.
When standing outside, a left-handed door opens from left to right (when closed, the handle is on the far left), and a right-handed door opens from right to left (when closed, the handle is on the far right). These relationships are sometimes described with the letters O and X, where O is the fixed panel and X is the sliding panel.
In Japanese architecture, fusuma are vertical rectangular panels which can slide from side to side to redefine spaces within a room, or act as doors. [1] They typically measure about 90 cm (2 ft 11 in) wide by 180 cm (5 ft 11 in) tall, the same size as a tatami mat, and are 2–3 cm (0.79–1.18 in) thick.
Shoji paper sliding doors in the Rinshunkaku at Sankei-en (Important Cultural Property) Shoji doors next to the tokonoma alcove, Rinshunkaku A tatami room surrounded by paper shoji (paper outside, lattice inside). The shoji are surrounded by an engawa (porch/corridor); the engawa is surrounded by garasu-do, all-glass sliding panels.
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